Donald Trump’s approach to the Jeffrey Epstein case has been getting low marks from the American public, according to a new Washington Post poll.
Just 18 percent of U.S. adults approve of how the president is handling the issue, while some 58 percent disapproving, WaPo’s poll found. The remaining 24 percent have no opinion.
Disapproval is, perhaps expectedly, widespread among Democrats, 90 percent, and independents at 63 percent. But even among Republicans, views are mixed. Just 38 percent approve, while 24 percent disapprove, and another 38 percent say they’re unsure. In response to allegations that Trump's name appears in the Epstein files, a White House spokesman called that "a fake news story".
Trump's problem in making the Epstein story go away is that some in his own base are still clamoring for more details and information.
Judge orders Trump administration to explain why order to restore Voice of America
wasn't followed
What can be done if officials of the Trump adminstration just ignore court orders? The president
is not going to be arrested for disobeying a court order and if members of his administration should be
arrested, then, as president, he would simply order their release. Unless the president is impeached, he can
keep on igorning court orders. Even then, he is likely to suffer no consequences. Mr. Trump was
impeached twice during his first term in office, but, each time, he was acquitted by the senate.
No US president has ever been successfully impeached and removed from office. Bill Clinton was
impeached, but remained in office after being acquitted by the senate. The impeachment of
President Andrew Johnson for "high crimes and misdemeanors" was initiated
by the House of Representatives on February 24, 1868. But Johnson, even before Clinton and Trump,
was acquitted by the senate and then served out the remainder of his term.
So a president can safely ignore court orders with impunity. If a judge orders the Trump administration
to explain why it did not restore Voice of America, as ordered by a court, the administration is likely to
simply ignore that order to explain, just as it ignored the order to restore the program. In our present
governmental system, there is really no check on a president, who still remains as the highest authority.
CNN, Tsunami waves hit US shores after 8.8 magnitude quake strikes Russia’s far east
[Photos of some lost children appear in the newspaper.]
Starvation deaths in Gaza are reportedly rising. Even those who do survive will probably have life-long health problems.
In a nutshell, Democrats are more opposed than ever, while Republicans still stand firm in their support of the Israeli leadership.
However, even MAGA may now be reassessing.
MAGA is turning on Israel over Gaza, but Trump is unmoved
Trump remains in lockstep with Netanyahu and the Israeli leadership.
But Trump and Bibi still remain best buds?
Here is a messge about Israel that just came into my in-box:
There is no longer a consensus among Jews about what has gone on there, as
witness today that two well known Israeli human rights groups have now
joined Amnesty International and others in charging that Israel has
committed genocide. Klein names some of the key figures in the discussion,
including Peter Beinart,...[and cites Beinart's] short but very good book, ON BEING JEWISH
AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF GAZA.
GMA, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Tuesday that his nation will recognize the state of Palestine at a United Nations meeting in September if Israel does not agree to a ceasefire in Gaza.
"Today, as part of this process towards peace, I can confirm the U.K. will recognize the state of Palestine by the United Nations General Assembly in September, unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza, agree to a ceasefire and commit to a long-term sustainable peace, reviving the prospect of a two-state solution," Starmer said at a news conference.
"This includes allowing the U.N. to restart the supply of aid and making clear that there will be no annexations in the West Bank," he continued.
www.CubaArchive.org For World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, Jamaica should stop the exploitation of Cuban workers
A former DC neighbor found the online biography shown below about my late ex-husband Tom Joe, whom I married in 1959 when I was 21, and who then divorced me 24 years later in 1983 to marry his young office assistant. Even before our divorce, I'd began working for, and remained for 16 years at, the American Occupational Therapy Association before joining the Peace Corps as a health volunteer in Honduras in 2000. I had no language problem in Honduras, thus skipping the usually mandatory language classes for volunteers as I was already completely bilingual, having first learned Spanish at the age of 2 when visiting Central America with my family. (Reportedly, I don't speak Spanish with a gringo accent.)
After serving 3 1/2 years in the Peace Corps in Honduras as a health volunteer, I returned to Washington, DC, then started working as an on-call Spanish medical interpreter. I soon began making annual humanitarian trips back to Honduras at my own expense, most recently in June 2024, as reported on this blog. I also wrote 2 books, one about my experiences in Honduras, the other about my volunteer human rights work in Cuba. (Titles appear here on this blog, with the books still selling modestly, both digitally and in print.)
My ex-huband had died in 1999 of lung cancer at age 63, after having been a life-long chain smoker of unfiltered Camels. He was totally blind from a youthful age and had never held a job before we married. I always stayed quietly in the background while helping propel him to success, assisting him over the years in the formulation of and reporting on all his early government projects. I also worked part-time during our marriage, mostly doing research and academic writing while raising our 4 kids. My son Jon, with whom I live now, is our youngest child. (My late ex-husband's online biography follows below, with no mention there of my major role in his success.)
Thomas Joe was a social policy analyst who initiated and critiqued government policies that affect the disadvantaged. He was instrumental in developing the nation’s federal income maintenance system for elderly and disabled persons (Supplemental Security Income), and helped two administrations draft plans for family welfare reform. Joe assisted state and local governments in the design and financing of human services for dependent children and low-income families. Former special assistant to the undersecretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1969-73), and consultant to the White House Domestic Policy Council (1975-79), he also served on the first National Council of the Handicapped (1982). He is co-author of By the Few for the Few (1985) and co-editor of Images of the Disabled, Disabling Images (1986).
Joe was director of the Center for the Study of Social Policy in Washington, D.C., a nonprofit organization he founded in 1979.
Joe received a B.A. (1958) and an M.A. (1961) from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also completed course work in the Ph.D. program in political science. Joe was totally blind since the age of thirteen.
Published on August 1, 1986
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